THE TRACKS.

Pure spectacle under the lights, and the resurfacing since 2023 opened up genuine racing where it used to be a procession.

Brutal humidity, safety cars that shred strategies, and the walls claiming a steady toll up and down the field.

Elevation, a wide racing surface and huge passing zones into Turns 1 and 12 — plus the biggest, loudest crowd of the US leg.

The bumps are a perennial driver complaint and the ageing surface keeps a resurfacing debate alive every season.

The Foro Sol stadium section is F1's best crowd moment, the Esses are slow-speed chaos, and the high-altitude slide show produces surprise results.

Thin air means cooling anxiety, brakes struggle all race, and strategy windows are unforgiving.

Senna S into Descida is a great racing complex, the lap's undulation is unique, and Interlagos decides championships — often in the rain.

Facilities have aged and the renovation promises have run for years; weather chaos turned the 2024 weekend upside down.

The racing in year one was genuinely excellent — huge braking zones, slipstreams and top speeds — and the neon spectacle is unmatched.

Cold track temperatures make tyre warm-up a nightmare, and the body-clock carnage for crews is the paddock's running complaint.

Fast, rhythmic corners that reward aerodynamic confidence, flawless facilities, and a huge new fanbase since F1's 2021 arrival.

Wind-blown dust keeps grip changing session to session, and the early-edition extreme heat forced later start times and tyre-limit games.

The revamp created real overtaking into the hairpin and chicanes, the twilight-to-night show is polished, and the title finale fireworks — literal and figurative — are tradition.

Pre-2021 it was the sport's most boring race, and the huge runoff zones still blunt some of the racing edge.

Multiple genuine overtaking spots (Turns 3, 9/10 and 11), a picturesque lake backdrop and one of the best atmospheres on the calendar.

Grip off the racing line is scarce early in the weekend, and the barriers turn small mistakes into race-ending ones.

The DRS train down the back straight guarantees overtaking, and the sprint format throws a strategic wildcard into round two.

The asphalt grains the tyres relentlessly, and the vast runoff areas make for a visually bland, lonely lap when the grandstands are quiet.

An all-time great driver's circuit with real overtaking into Turns 1 and the chicane, plus the most devoted grandstand culture in the sport.

Narrow and unforgiving: outside the two main passing zones, track position is everything and gravel waits for tiny mistakes.

The stadium-section atmosphere is loud, the T1 hairpin and Turn 11 remain solid passing spots, and the track surface has improved year on year.

Off-line grip is still treacherous, mid-afternoon heat punishes drivers and tyres, and the fake marina still gets an annual roasting.

Big braking zones into Turns 1 and 10 create real racing, weather roulette spices the strategy, and the fans sit right on top of the track.

Bumpy, green and slippery — the surface never fully rubbers in, and the barriers leave zero margin for error.

Unmatched history, glamour and intensity: the ultimate test of precision, with the Tunnel and Casino Square as iconic as sport gets.

Virtually impossible to overtake in modern cars — processional races are the accepted trade-off for the qualifying spectacle.

A proper car-balance test every team understands intimately, with genuine flow from Turn 3 through the high-speed final sector.

Wide runoff and gravel make close racing rare — this is a track that historically produces processional afternoons.

Short, punchy and great for racing — massive stops into T1 and T3, with the Styrian mountains as a postcard backdrop.

Track limit violations have marred recent editions, and the tiny lap means even small gaps look enormous in percentage terms.

The fastest flowing complex on the calendar, huge sell-out crowds, and real overtaking into Village and The Loop — plus the sprint format's annual chaos.

The British weather lottery can flip a weekend sideways, and the surface bumps punish rigid setups.

The greatest lap on the calendar, genuine elevation and the best weather drama in the sport — one valley can hold sun, fog and a storm at once.

Long clean races turn processional, the lap hides midfield battles, and safety debates around Eau Rouge never fully quieten.

A genuine technical challenge that punishes impatience, with strategy variety always possible when tyre wear bites late in the race.

Slow, hot and famously hard to pass — the early-weekend dust means Friday running is mostly sweeping and guesswork.

The banked corners are a one-off on the calendar, the dune-side crowd is spectacular, and the sprint format guarantees maximum Verstappen-home-crowd chaos.

Few passing zones, and the coastal wind dumps sand that keeps grip levels swinging all weekend.

Slipstream overtaking into the chicanes, the most atmospheric grandstand in F1, and a lap where top speed still matters most.

Low-downforce setups compromise the cars everywhere else, and clean races can settle into chicane-procession monotony.

A fast, technical lap between the walls that drivers genuinely enjoy on one lap, with huge fan zones and organisers publicly open to changes for year two.

Overtaking largely failed to materialise in the inaugural race — cars simply got stuck; drivers called out Turns 18-19 as the prime suspects.

The longest straight of the year plus walls and low grip — podium variety here is unmatched, with first-time winners and shock results a tradition.

For every chaotic classic there's a processional afternoon — when nothing breaks, the racing quietly disappears.

Turns 5-6-7 and the long back straight produce real racing, the facilities remain world-class, and the driver love for this layout never faded.

Tropical monsoon roulette and brutal humidity — the classic 4pm storm threat now applies under floodlights instead.